Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant A. J. Lissaman, Royal Fusiliers, killed in action at Roclincourt on 13 April 1917

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. J. Lissaman.); Memorial Plaque (Arthur John Lissaman) in card envelope with Buckingham Palace enclosure, extremely fine (3) £140-180

Arthur John Lissaman, of Tooting, Surrey, was educated at East London College, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers on 28 April 1915, having previously served in the University of London O.T.C. He served with the 23rd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 10 February 1916, and was killed in action by a shell in an attack at Roclincourt on 13 April 1917: ‘The 23rd Battalion captured four guns in the fight before the village of Oppy, but they lost heavily for Captain Lissmann [sic], the adjutant, was killed by a shell as he walked with the Commanding Officer towards the railway. (The Royal Fusiliers in the Great War, by H. C. O’Neill refers). He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

Sold together with the recipient’s Commission, appointing him a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry on 28 April 1915.